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This poster, probably
from the very early 1930s, claims 'The Modern Way' but the
claim came from an airline renowned for outdated equipment.

Part of a series on
Airline Slogans - please
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Skip down to the continuation
of what is the internet's most comprehensive listing of airlines
and their slogans if you're paging through this series.

If you've entered directly to
this page, you should read the first page in this series for
some background commentary and then the comments below before
moving on to more airlines and their slogans.

Airlines with Names beginning G
through N

Here are such slogans and
related phrases as we've been able to find for airlines starting
with the letters G through N inclusive. Click through the
other parts of this series of other airlines - we have airlines
featured from all letters of the alphabet.

Within each airline section
we list slogans in alphabetical order.

Can You Help Us?

Sure, this is already
probably the largest collection of airline slogans, anywhere.
But it barely touches the surface of all the slogans that have
ever been released, for all airlines that have ever flown (or
even not flown!).

Furthermore, the information
we do have is usually incomplete and may sometimes be
inaccurate.

If you can help us more
accurately identify the slogans we have, or if you have new
slogans to add to the collection, please
let us know. It is helpful if you tell us the slogan
itself, the airline it related to, and also as much else such as
when the slogan was in use, and how it was used, and any
background to why the slogan was chosen, or why it was
superseded, and anything else to add to the context of each
slogan.

Garuda

Celebrating 100 Years of Nation’s Awakening
(this is apparently exactly the words used,
subsequently replaced by the more literate)

Celebrating 100 Years of National Awakening

2009

Germanwings

Tickets from €29.
It's not a joke, we're German

Great Lakes
Airlines

Your greatest
little airline

Gulf Air

Golden falcon

Hapag-Lloyd
Express

Fly for the price
of a taxi

Harbor
Airlines

A
Harbor Airlines apparently operated from
1974 to 2001, offering short haul service in
Washington State between Seattle,
Bellingham, Oak Harbor, Mt Vernon, and San
Juan Islands (a 1976 timetable cover has
been sighted).

For
the latter part of this time it was a part
of the Alaska Airlines group, and was
labeled as being 'Alaska Airlines Commuter
Service' (a 1996 timetable cover has been
sighted).

Note
there was apparently a separate airline
called Harbor Air (a 1998 timetable cover
has been sighted).

Nothing further currently known.

Driving Is Beneath Us
(sighted, timetable, 1996))

1996

Hawaiian
Airlines

Come share a
moment

Follow me home
(half jokingly some of the women employees
were worried about stalkers after this
motto)

2004

Hawaii Starts
Here.

Only one airline
is Hawaiian
(A lovely poke at its competitors)

The colors of
paradise

(The) Wings of the
islands

Horizon Airlines

It is our privilege to serve you
(sighted, timetable, 1981)

1981

Wings of the great
northwest

Hughes Airwest

Top banana in the
West (their planes were painted bright
yellow)

late 70s

Iberia (Spain)

First (comes?) the wrench, then the rose.

late 60s

Iberia. One of the
world's best airlines.

More than just
flying

Only the aircraft
gets more attention than you

Imperial Airways

British airline ca 1924 - 1939

(Every Imperial Air liner has) 4 Engines for
Security

and

Four Engined Air Liners
(sighted on posters)
(an amusing precursor to arch-competitor
Virgin Atlantic's slogan some 70 years
later)

first
1938

second
unknown

Comfort in the Air
(sighted on poster)

The British Air Line
(sighted on poster)

1930s

The Greatest Air
Service in the World
(sighted on newspaper ad)

mid 1930s

The Modern Way
(on poster at top of this page)
(amusingly, this airline - a competitor to
BA - had a reputation for outdated planes)

1930

The Only British
Air - Line
(sighted on poster, note spelling of Air -
Line)
(prior to the establishment of BAin 1935)

pre 1935

Indian Airlines

50 years of flying

Island Air

Simply Hawaii

Taking You to the
Hidden Hawaii

JAL

The wings of the
new Japan

post WW2

The worldwide
airline of Japan

Jet Airways,
India

The Joy of Flying

JetBlue

It's not the only
way to fly, but it should be

2004-5

JetBlue. You'll
Want to Fly Again!

Somebody up there
likes you

Stop flying.
Start Jetting.

We like you, too.

2004-5

When you know
JetBlue, you know better.

Your name is not
17A.

Jetmagic

Fly a
different way

Jetstar

Let's
fly Jetstar

Kenya Airways

The
pride of Africa

Kingfisher Airlines

Indian airline, formed in 2005

Fly the
Good Times

2009

Kingfisher Red

This
is the low cost airline run by Kingfisher
Airlines in India. It was formed in
2008.

The
Choice is Simple

2009

KLM

Dutch
airline, formed in 1919, purchased by Air
France in 2004 but still trading under its
original name.

Een reis
vol inspiratie
(Journeys of inspiration)

2009

Get in
touch with the Dutch

KLM.
The reliable airline

Test us.
Try us. Fly us.

The
world over

Worldwide Reliability
(sighted - slogan on the NW/KL alliance)

1993 -
2003

Korean Air

Beyond your
imagination

1990s

Excellence in
Flight

2009

The art of joyful
flying

The spirit of
Korea is in the air

Welcome to my
world (and would use the Elvis Presley song
of same name)

MarkAir started operations (in Alaska) in
1984 after being renamed from its former
identity as Alaska International Air.

During the rest of the 1980s it grew to
become Alaska's largest airline, operating
within the state only, and with a codeshare
arrangement with Alaska Airlines to take
their out of state traffic on to/from their
final destination in Alaska.

In
1990 this codeshare agreement ended and the
two airlines entered into fierce competition
both within Alaska and for travel out of
Alaska too.

In
1992 the airline went into bankruptcy,
emerging in 1993, but in 1996 the airline
closed down. Its MarkAir Express
remained until 1997, and then reorganized
into an all-cargo carrier, Alaska Central
Express.

Alaska is our home
(sighted, timetables, 1986, 87, 89)

1986 -
94

Mandala Airlines
(Indonesia)

The New Mandala

2009

Merpati Airlines
(Indonesia)

Get the Feeling

2009

Midway Airlines

Our spirit will
lift you

Midwest Express
Airlines

The best care in
the air

Mississippi
Valley Airlines

Trade your wheels
for wings, fly MVA

Mohawk Airlines

Jet Mohawk
(for the arrival of the BAC 111s)

late 60s

Price of the air
route chiefs

Morris Air

Initially as Morris Air Service in 1984 and
operating charter service only, it became a
regular carrier as Morris Air in 1992.

After a short lived but successful period
of operation and growth, the airline was
sold to Southwest Airlines in 1993 and
ceased operating under its own identity in
1994.

More
than Fare
(sighted on timetables, 1992, 93)

1992 -
93

Your Low
Fare Leader
(sighted on timetables, 1992)

1992

Mt Cook Airline(s)

Began
scheduled services in New Zealand in 1961.
Air New Zealand purchased it in several
slices during the 1980s and gained complete
control in 1991.

In about 1980 the name changes from Mt
Cook Airlines to Mt Cook Line, and then in
about 1984 to Mt Cook Airline.

Formed in 1981 and started service in 1982
by Lamar Muse, formerly founder and first
president of Southwest Airlines.
Bought out by Southwest in 1985 and renamed
to TranStar Airlines, closed down in 1987.

(Muse
Air) makes flying beautiful
(sighted on timetables, 1982, 833)

1982 -
83

You just
gotta fly it
(sighted on 1983, 84 advertisements)

1983, 84

NAC (National Airways
Corporation) NZ

NAC
was formed in 1947 in New Zealand when the
government nationalized Union Airways.
It provided domestic services within NZ,
while TEAL (renamed Air NZ in 1965) provided
international services. In 1978 the
government merged the two airlines, losing
the NAC name in the process.

The
name 'National Airlines' has been used by a
number of carriers in a number of countries,
and by three different airlines in the US.

These entries related to the Miami based
airline that started operations in 1934 and
which was bought by Pan Am in 1980.

Coast to
Coast to Coast
(sighted, timetables, 1965, 68)

1965 -
68

I’m
Maggie. Fly me (possibly other names/flight
attendants too) sighted - see this
YouTube video
Note that in response to charges of sexism,
the airline named its planes with common
girls' names and claimed that it was
inviting people to fly on its planes.
First name/person used was Cheryl.

1971 -
mid 70s

(Fly
National,) Airline of the Stars
(sighted on flight bag, 'Airline of the
Stars' is the strap line underneath the bold
National logo)
(sighted, timetables, 1951, 55, 58, 62)

used
during the 1950s - 60s

Is this
any way to run an airline? You bet it
is

1970

National
Airlines says you're gonna have a great
flight

Serving
Florida and the South
(sighted, timetable, 1940)

1939 - 1940's

The
Buccaneer Route
(sighted, timetables, 1939, 1940)

1940's

The
bigger we get, the brighter we shine.

We're
National the Sunshine Airline... Watch Us
Shine.

National Airlines

Unrelated to the earlier National, based in
Las Vegas, operated between 1999 - 2002.

Everything's better up here
(sighted, timetable, 2000)

2000

New York Air

Formed in 1980 as a subsidiary of Frank
Lorenzo's Texas Air, it was the first
airline to start flying after deregulation
in 1978.

Was merged with Continental in 1986 and
its identity disappeared in 1987.

The Airline that
works for your business

North Central
(USA)

Good people make
our airline great

Northeast
Airlines

Formerly known as Boston-Maine Airways and
was renamed as Northeast Airlines in 1940.

Was
taken over by new owners in 1965, and given
new plans and new livery - the planes had
two-tone yellow and white livery and were
known as Yellowbirds.

Was
merged into Delta in 1972.

"And a Half"
(sighted, timetables, 1971 - offering things
like "A seat and a half" or 'Minuteman' for
"Speed and a Half" - faster computerised
reservations, or "Fun and a half" vacations
or "Week and a half" vacations)

Little By Little We're Changing The Way You
Fly
(sighted, timetables, 1970 - in conjunction
with the "...and a half" campaign)

1971

Making a Neighborhood of the Northeast
(sighted, timetables, 1941 - same slogan was
used in 1939 and 40 under the previous name
too)

1941

The Wings of New England
(sighted, timetables, 1945 - 48)

1945 -
48

The Yankee Fleet
(sighted, timetables, 1948 - 51)

1948 -
51

Yellowbird
(The major theme of much of its marketing
from 1966 - 72)

1966 -
72

You'll wish we flew everywhere
(sighted, timetables, 1968)

1968

Northwest
Airlines

Founded in 1926 as Northwest Airways.

In
1949, after having acquired routes to Japan
and Asian after WW2, it rebranded itself as
Northwest Orient Airlines. In 1986 (or
possibly 1989) it dropped the 'Orient' and
became Northwest Airlines.

It
was bought by Delta in 2008, and after a
period of remaining brand life and
co-branding, NW branding became successively
scarcer, with the final NW flight occurring
on 31 Jan 2010. The nwa.com website
ceased to exist on that day too.

Look to us.
(sighted, timetable, 1988)

1988 - early
90s

(Northwest
Airlines.) Some People Just Know How To Fly
(sighted, timetable, 1997)

The Fan-Jet
airline
(sighted, timetable, 1968)
(after retiring the last of their prop
powered planes)

1963/4 -
8

The world is going
our way.

Worldwide Reliability
(sighted - slogan on the NW/KL alliance)

1993 -
2003

Important Note : The Accuracy of the Slogans
Listed

We've compiled this list of
slogans as a result of searching through the internet and
exercising as much quality control as we can, but identifying
definitive slogans is very much a series of shades of grey
rather than black and white - indeed, we've seen airlines
themselves with multiple similar versions of the same slogan -
are these a planned formal evolution of the 'official' slogan,
or a series of mistaken variations on the official theme?

When does a slogan start or
finish?

How much of a sentence,
clause, or phrase is the key part of the slogan, and how much is
not so relevant? For example, the slogan often remembered
as 'Something Special in the Air' comes from a more complete
sentence 'Silver bird, take me where there's something special
in the air', and we've seen the slogan cited in full, or as the
intermediate form 'take me where there's something special in
the air' as well as in its five word essential form.

Wherever possible, we've
tried to show as much of the complete context of the slogan as
we can, and indicate by brackets which is the key part.

Capitals/lower case/periods

Very rarely we've actually
sighted a slogan ourselves, and then can accurately copy it in
terms of its capitalization and punctuation. But even in
such cases as that, ambiguities arise - if a slogan is shown in
all upper case, should we now show it as all upper case or
should we use a mix of upper and lower case, and, if the latter
(our preference) was it the original intent to capitalize every
word or just the starts of sentences and proper nouns?

Additionally, if a slogan is
broken into two lines when printed, was it the intent of the
slogan writer to have it in two lines, or is this merely a
layout/typographical coincidence? Should we show it as two
lines, or as two sentences, or as one sentence with a comma?

Should there be a period at
the end of the slogan?

So, even if we have sighted
the slogan ourselves, it is difficult to accurately render it on
this listing.

Relying on imperfect sources

And, of course, if we're
accepting someone else's recollection or written memory, there
is plenty of opportunity for error.

Two people might offer two
versions of a slogan - is this a case of one person being
mistaken (and which person?), or is it a case of a slogan which
appeared in two forms?

Sometimes it is interesting
to see how slogans get confused and altered, but in the
interests of accuracy, we're trying to restrict ourselves to the
correct versions only!

The bottom line - what can you
rely upon

The bottom line is that few
of these slogans can be considered as definitive. If
you're looking for a resource to settle a large bet with a
friend, the only slogans you can be certain of here are the ones
that have a formal attribution to them (eg a 'sighted' or
similar comment).

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Originally published
21 Aug 2009, last update
19 Dec 2013

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